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Red Wings Draft: Why Detroit Takes Michigan’s Kent Johnson

ST. PAUL, MN - APRIL 5: The Michigan Wolverines huddle before a game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during game two of the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Hockey Frozen Four Championship Semifinal at the Xcel Energy Center on April 5, 2018 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Richard T Gagnon/Getty Images)

Picking sixth in the draft, Red Wing’s general manager Steve Yzerman will have a bevy of high end talent to examine across the world. He has a handful of “home grown” prospects to analyze at the University of Michigan, which includes the player with maybe the highest upside in the draft: Kent Johnson.